Hi, I'm Miranda ₊ ⊹ ⟡

I'm a student at Stanford studying computer science (B.S. '23, M.S. '25). Through my research and work, I aim to use technology to (A) facilitate positive human-to-human social outcomes to close the digital divide and to (B) promote human-machine collaboration to enhance accessibility and expertise for non-technical users and under-resourced populations. I am especially interested in education because it both exemplifies existing inequities in tech literacy and offers the potential to bridge them.

Also, my art practice is very important to me.

Linkedin ⟡ Email ⟡ Github

Research

Fostering And Understanding Diverse Interpersonal Connections in a Massive Online CS1 Course

Miranda Li, Ali Malik, Chris Piech
The 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2025)

Bug or artistic feature? Scaling assessment and feedback of creative student-authored graphics programs

Miranda Li, Cameron Mohne, Chris Piech
CS229: Machine Learning (fall 2023)
⟡ Best Project Award

Assessing Political Bias using Crowdsourced Pairwise Comparisons

Miranda Li, Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Mcardle Hankin, Andrew Ying, Cathy Wang
The 8th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2020)
⟡ Best Work-in-Progress Award

Experience

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California Community Colleges x Stanford Digital Education

Coordinator

March 2024 → Present

Invited panelist at the 2024 California Community Colleges Futures Summit, to speak on the development of CS 49, a hybrid course for California Community College students which adapts the Code in Place curriculum. Coordinating between Stanford and CCC faculty, developing course materials, and managing student success.

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9 Dots

Learning designer

June 2022 → September 2023

Designed lesson plans for game-based learning and professional development resources for public school teachers at Title 1 elementary schools in LA County, serving 300+ teachers at 24+ partner schools, reaching 8,000+ students. Developed teacher training curriculum to support teachers in teaching CS without prior CS experience.

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Policy Lab

Contributor

March 2023 → June 2023

Authored 27 page report (available on request) on the impact of generative AI on education for Stanford Law School Policy Lab on Governance and Regulation of Emerging Technologies. The report will be synthesized with other reports to inform policy recommendations regarding generative AI.

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Rashaad Newsome Studio

AI Research and Development

March 2021 → August 2021

Used text generation models in novel pipeline for poetry generation which incorporates human feedback, in collaboration with poets Dazié Grego and Alok Vaid-Menon

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Code in Place

Course Admin, Director of Head TAs, Developer... and more!

March 2020 → May 2020, March 2021 → Present

Code in Place is a free, human-centered offering of the first half of CS106A, Stanford's intro Python course, which has served around 30k students worldwide. Please 'See more', as I've done a lot of work for this course!

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Stanford Computer Science

Section Leader

Winter 2020 → Winter 2021

Led Stanford students in weekly discussion sections for Stanford’s Programming Methodologies course; worked closely with faculty to ensure course accessibility for visually impaired students; wrote a tool to support student learning of image processing techniques.

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Morphogen

Machine Learning Intern

June 2021 → September 2021

Aided in upcoming redesign of Artbreeder, an in-browser GAN application, by producing machine learning pipeline for visualizing and summarizing latent space of trained image models

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Knowhere News

Software Engineering Intern

June 2020 → August 2020

Built, trained, and tuned models to predict the intuitive newsworthiness of event clusters and tips, using non-text and text features extracted from event cluster / tip metadata; built web service to integrate newsworthiness models into pipeline and deployed both models into production to streamline content management system for more efficient, unbiased story selection; created responsible data visualizations for an editorial project on COVID-19 statistics

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Stanford McCoy Center for Ethics in Society

Research Assistant

January 2024 → June 2024

Designed curriculum for a new interdisciplinary Stanford course on critical making with AI entitled "AI and Art: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Making" under professors Shane Denson, Camille Utterback, and Miguel Novelo

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An AI-generated newspaper, vaguely spooky looking, with columns and headlines that are all nonsense.

Nonsense Newspapers

September 2020 → December 2020

Trained a GAN to generate realistic-looking but meaningless newspaper images as an artistic work intended to invoke a sense of simultaneous familiarity and foreignness, and made a physical zine.

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Teus Media

ML Research and Development

January 2021 → March 2021

Employed deep learning methods to build voice conversion / anonymization pipeline for protection of at-risk subjects in documentary films

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Three Stanford Daily magazine covers in a row. The leftmost is dark, with numbers 5150 over a collage of images with the caption, 'Where do Stanford students go after they've attempted suicide?'. The middle, titled 'The Health Edition', has an image of a classroom with empty chairs and desks, with the handwritten caption, 'You can never level the playing field.' The rightmost is very colorful and has the word 'PRIDE' in large white letters with playful accents.

Stanford Daily

Graphics Managing Editor

November 2018 → June 2019

Directed 10 graphic artists in producing three 36-page magazines for print publication: Issue 4, Issue 5, and Issue 6. Oversaw deadlines and printing process; coordinated communication between managing editors and staffers.

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